David Zeuthen wrote:
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 08:56 +0200, Nicu Buculei wrote:
John Baer wrote:
Posted some additional artwork submissions to the round 2 page.
Just for fun I made an Open Office and Gimp splash screen.
Question: do we want customized splash screens for such applications?
- the splash for OpenOffice.org was customized for a while (around
FC2-FC3) in the Bluecurve style.;
- the GIMP splash was never (AFAIK) customized in RHL/Fedora;
- in the current FC6 the Eclipse splash is customized ("Fedora Eclipse")
but is not related at all to the rest of the desktop theming.
I don't think we should be changing the Gimp and Open Office's splash
screens - those products have their own brand identity. I do think,
though, there are other themeable bits we should definitely look into -
e.g., the default 'you've got webserver!' html for when you first setup
apache on a Fedora system, or if we're going with a face browser, the
default avatars available for people to choose from.
I think we should avoid theming splash screens because
a) splash screens are generally not themeable; hence
a1) extra work for package owners for patching it in - including
all the work communicating with said maintainers; and
Right, we should definitely consider the amount of extra work involved
for package maintainers. Although if we can provide our own patches,
it's not really much of a load, correct?
b) some applications take pride in their splash screen and branding
it might be considered offensive. For example this applies to
The Gimp where there's, IIRC, a competition for splash screens
Are we required to create one for Eclipse for various reasons? (I don't
actually know, I just assumed so.) If not is there a reason we can't use
the upstream one? Or at least clean up the current Fedora-themed one?
c) many developers (including most people working on Fedora) generally
consider splash screens to be bad; instead applications should just
start up really fast.
+1
d) splash screens are only shown for 1) a short time (if at all); and
2) only when launching specific apps; so, at least to the
cost/benefit of doing splash screens isn't really justified
I don't think it can be argued that they will go unnoticed. The Gimp and
OOo are definitely widely-used apps. If it was deemed important for
Fedora branding purposes (which I don't agree it is, but w/e) it
wouldn't be a waste of effort.
~m
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